This is an Iran that I have tried to know, at a distance, from Delhi, for awhile. I have followed it in the testaments of Iranian exiles and Iraniandissidents like AkbarGanji and ShirinEbadi and thousans of others, imprisoned, tortured, killed, blackmailed andblacklisted, in the statements of anonymous and underground and lesser knownAnarchist, Communist and Socialist Iranians, Iranian feminists, Iranian workers,Iranian civil rights activists, Iranian bloggers, Iranians both religious andnon-religious who no longer believe that the Islamic Republic’s regime meansanything to them, Iranian filmmakers, artists, poets, writers, philosophers,scientists and doctors, Iranian gay and lesbian activists, ordinary, decent,hard working, god fearing, sceptical and apolotical Iranians who just want to beleft in peace and spared the depradations of a regime grown fat on the lard ofcorruption, priviledge and hypocrisy. Today, millions of these people, men,women, children, older people, pensioners, war veterans, former Islamists,believers and non-believers, are showing us that they, and not theKhamenei-Ahmedinijad cartel will write the contemporary history of Iran.